just. aiding the enemy. israel. effectively. from any sort of european union funding. economic desperation. poured into the streets over revelations of corruption at the very top of the ruling party.

it is a pleasure to have you with us here today. live in moscow with your world headlines . now being released for the time being he was. taken to preliminary detention in the past twenty four hours and was sentenced to five years prison for and. prosecutors insisted he shouldn't be locked up until his appeal has been heard. reports from right outside the court. well diversification has made an appeal to the court following yesterday's verdict guilty. and his codefendant put on charges of the best moment in the amount of roughly sixteen million rubles that's about half

a million dollars. taken into custody in court right after the verdict was read and it took the judge around three hours to read the hundred page document of the prosecution filed an appeal saying that this measure a preliminary confinement was too strict in this particular case. and officers have to be released from custody which is exactly what happened after a short court hearing again in. europe. are not to leave the country both of them are on their way to moscow and that means that nobody is now essentially free. elections as was initially planned but the problem with that is that the. election campaign manager says that they will perceive. that he is not so certain about his electoral campaign nevertheless he is going to make the final announcement of exactly what he's going to do what his future plans

are after he arrives in moscow on saturday morning. all these ridiculous you're reporting right now in the meantime washington's accusing moscow of suppressing quote in civil society all of this in the wake of the sentencing of the e.u. says it's very concerned over the rule of law in russia. from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris he believes that today's release demonstrates exactly the opposite. what i want to say about the release is that it is surely the proof that the western idea that this trial is political is false because if the court were and the prosecutor were under the control of hooted as the western press caricature as this this trial then. then it is clear that he would not have been released on appeal because between now and his appeal he cannot run for moscow city mayor he can give as many interviews as he likes it's an

absolute public city godsend for him it doesn't remove him from politics at all it's the absolute ideal solution for him in a sense because it gives him maximum public city and it enables him to carry on politics so this release if you like is the proof that the trial is not being is not telephone justice. and talking about these amnesty prospects president putin's spokesman says it's possible but only if the myths his guilt let's get more now in the kremlin reaction with you're going to spin off joining us live on the program to go to good to see you what else has the president's press secretary had to say about these confliction. also said that the president is fully aware of the criminal case involving. but has no right for an official opinion about it in order not to apply any pressure on the judge besides respecting the court's decision whatever it may be and now. also was asked whether there could be

a possibility of. being granted amnesty by the president and he said well the legal legal procedure. is that first and only has to admit his guilt which she obviously hasn't been doing in fact he's been claiming that the case is political and was fabricated because of corruption activities and criticism. and the president also commented on thursday protests a rally in central moscow in support of the opposition blogger saying that it was a violation of the russian law it was not authorized by city officials and he hoped such violations would not occur. in the future. or there be no protests in moscow over the past twenty four hours or anything anything today just because well a small group of these supporters did gather in moscow again on friday but compared to the numbers of people who took to the streets thursday evening this is

a very small amount that has been a reaction from them when these team to the fact that he was freed until three released on appeal have applauded this fact but at the same time on thursday the team and not only himself were calling for his supporters to take to the. streets in protest now they're calling on everyone to follow the letter of the law and not take part in any unauthorized rallies and just to remind you on thursday from three to seven thousand people gathered in central moscow. for a few hours. on authorized the rally which did result in around two hundred. made by the police late at night but. it is needed to say that throughout most of the rally the police was trying to just keep the protesters out of the streets in order not to block traffic and there were several attempts to do so. going off in moscow thank you. well in the meantime

a political analyst to meet you babiche you told us here at r.t. that these political career is unlikely to reach great heights despite visible support on the streets of moscow. i don't think that he stands a chance of winning in moscow not because of their authoritarian nature or the russian regime but because his program is not very different from some balance problem differences that there can be you know and i think that when the western press depicts not only as you know in the roles he called us as a liberal and a humanist and all these things it's a simplification because he has been expelled from the liberal party for nationalist deviations i think that the secret of his success is that he's a very average young russian and. not squeaky clean maybe you know a little nationalistic. striving for economic freedom so i think that he has

some support but of course it's not massive support it's not millions of people he's just an interesting young man just like many young interpreted or so that you have in moscow and in other russian cities. and i do bear in mind if you've missed any of our coverage you can always catch up with it and. also there are a live update so the best pictures are from the protests against the verdict as well as our got a correspondent on twitter keeping an eye on all the latest news all around. so it's good to have you with us here in our u.s. judge has ruled that bradley manning must face the challenge of quote aiding the enemy a decision that means the whistleblower could spend the rest of his life behind prison walls but the defense had all the trove of classified information to wiki leaks to spark reform and debate. has been following this case for. it is the most serious charge of the private first class faces so that means he still faces the

possibility of life without parole now the court took a look at the testimony and evidence we've heard so far throughout this case and found that there is enough evidence to move forward with this charge this charge of aiding the enemy prosecution has cited manning's job as an intelligence analyst they say that as an intelligence analysts he should have known that by leaking these documents to the empty secret secrecy website wiki leaks that al qaeda osama bin laden and al qaeda affiliates were going to see this information and now the defense has insisted and has maintained that bradley manning and no way intended to aid the enemy they say that he is a whistleblower and that he leaked these documents in an effort to expose wrongdoing and to basically to spark a public debate what is going on in the wars abroad diplomatically really what the truth is. the u.s. government isn't only coming down hard on bradley manning it's also squarely

targeted at another secrets leak of a former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden of course he blew the lid off american surveillance activities currently stranded at a moscow airport transit zone but only one has the american public sympathy washington correspondent guy nature can explains the u.s. government's relentless crackdown on whistleblowers is sort of designed to scare the whistleblowers of the future but we see that bradley manning fate is not scared edward snowden for example so despite the crackdown whistleblowers keep coming forward with revelations about the government's wrongdoings as they see them so the u.s. government decided that punishment is perhaps not enough in the wake of bradley manning's lease the government came up with the so-called insiders like program under which government employees with clearances are basically instructed to snitch on each other so employees have to judge their colleagues each and behavior and determine whether they might might become a whistleblower you can imagine how many baseless and discriminatory investigations

the program could trigger critics argue that the obama administration is using mccarthy methods to go after whistleblowers on top of that you have journalists who sources in the government have dried up the justice department has shown that to track down an on off the rice source they can see quickly seized during this communications records as was the case with a.p. germany's so but this new era of whistleblowers we spoke with them for next has been writing extensively on the bradley manning case take a listen you know virginia was brutally i mean i don't see how to walk out of the red corp in the hospital documents all in a hotel room seventy two hours and so these are the documents on a lot of bradley manning underground and not loading here. you know presumably doing something so we were just running scared of the documents and we were the editor of a president of secrecy and a person in a. horses are bound to live it's interesting poll show that the majority of

americans think of edward snowden as a whistleblower not a traitor whereas the majority of americans think bradley manning is a traitor to a certain extent the public support for this or that whistleblower depends on the subject of their revelations bradley manning revealed the us governments were crimes abroad perhaps not surprisingly many generates more sympathy abroad than at home but one can argue that americans are more sympathetic to snowden because his revelations are about their rights their civil liberties so they care more when it's some iraqis rights they apparently care less. live from moscow it's all on t.v. and still to come in the program that have simmering tension in the shooting of trayvon martin and with the prospect looming of a civil rights case against the acquitted killer over a black teenager he told live to the daughter of martin luther king jr her thoughts on the case on its ramifications that animal in just

a moment here. exactly what happened that day i don't know but a woman got killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were they could do what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said.

i. thank you joining us here on our show the f.b.i. and the u.s. justice department have told florida police not to give back the gun to george zimmerman was acquitted last week after shooting the unarmed black teenager trayvon martin and the court ruled zimmerman acted in self defense or the department of justice is holding on to his gun and other evidence and with the prospect of a federal civil rights investigation zimmerman's acquittal sponsor full days of outrage across the u.s. and with thousands declaring it was racial discrimination we cannot discuss this

without bunnies king a daughter of one of the most prominent civil rights leaders of the twentieth century martin luther king jr thank you very much for coming on r.t. a pleasure to see you today how do you feel about george zimmerman now walking free from court thank you well of course i was extremely disappointed heartbroken that. i was thinking that maybe. there would have been a manslaughter conviction at least. and so this evidence is that we still have a lot of work to do in terms of our laws in the united states of america i mean the jury i believe the best that they could do with what they were given but in many regards this case in my personal opinion was not prosecuted right all right so you say the lawyers i did the best are given the circumstances many arguing though the ruling highlights us racial profiling do you agree.

well i mean it depends on how you look at it when when you think about. the fact that had this been a white american a white young man i doubt very seriously george zimmerman would have reacted so so swiftly in this situation i think he probably would have thought about it twice because the fact of the matter is america we all you know i mean it's almost like a secret that there are certain people that you have to be careful with and there are other people there them the value of their life is not there. and so you know i believe that it could have been racial profiling a situation just by some of the language that george zimmerman was using on the nine one one call and things and then make sure how do you think a case like this would have been dealt with when your fall of martin luther king jr

was a life you think much has changed since then. well i mean if you if you narrow it down to just this particular case i would say perhaps not terms of nothing being changed but a lot of things have changed in america so we can't say nothing has changed i just think that we are still contending with just laws and more importantly laws that disproportionately affect african-americans and african-american males. more than any other group of people in america and so you know these kind of issues were very prevalent in my father's time oftentimes you would have all white juries in this case it was mostly white and one hispanic and there's a a a a black victim in most times when there's a black victim in this case and when i mean by victim is the one who did. nine

times out of ten back in the sixty's or should i say ten times out of ten. that person would have walked just as george zimmerman zimmerman walked in this particular situation. as you were suggesting a moment ago of course there are numerous ethnic groups living across the united states is it possible though that it's just the african-american population the feels oppressed. well i think a lot of groups in america feel oppressed i think for those of us american american community because we've had such a long history of oppression since we've been in this country it makes it a little bit more intense and when we look at the statistics in a lot of the different categories in america whether we're talking about the criminal justice system education health care wealth there are great disparities still as it relates to the african-american community and so you know this

particular case i think to me is a sign and a wake up call that we have to finish or continue the unfinished work of martin luther king jr i think perhaps that's why ironically we have the name trayvon martin not that he is martin luther king jr but i think it's kind of a sign that hey we've got to reconnect with and continue this unfinished work of martin luther king jr particularly in the racial and economic areas your father martin luther king jr obviously he brought massive changes into the system back in one nine hundred sixty s. through nonviolent disobedience he successfully for the united states segregation policies for one what do you think needs to be done to eradicate what many are still calling racial injustice in the country what can be done do you think. well i think we all have to start personally individually in our own homes and in

our hearts you know my father taught. them the power of unconditional love and nonviolence and seeing people as a part of the human race not just black or white or asian or that team. but as a part of the human race and we have to find a way in in this not just in this nation but in this world to see ourselves as interconnected in interrelated and find a way to live together as brothers and sisters as my father said or perish together as fools and one of the best ways i think to do that is we have to have more dialogue and discussion and it has to be honest dialogue and discussion and we have to remove a lot of the hate in the hostility in the process and really talk about the different perspectives and feelings that people have as a relates to race because we have to get to the bottom of it we continue to brush

it under the rug but we have to talk about it we have to establish friendships and understanding and reach across and connect with each other in different communities because oftentimes people because they don't know each other they don't know each other because they don't connect with one another and so i think one of the first steps is that we have to really have these these meetings these these dialogues these conversations where we begin to connect more i think secondly we have to have a serious look into the systematic and institutional structures of america that may continue to perpetuate some of the best disease of slavery and segregation and racism in our society but he is king of the c.e.o. of the martin luther king center for nonviolent social change and of course the daughter of the renowned civil rights activist thank you very much for joining us here nazi today thank you. all right now let's

shift gears here and turn our attention that of us spain where thousands of people have clashed with police in thirty cities and their outrage over revelations of corruption within the ruling people's party and they're demanding the prime minister quits after claims that he and other party members received over eight million euros of bribes right now sprain is gripped by its worst economic crisis in decades madrid financial trader felix marino he believes it will be tough for mariano rajoy to try and survive these protests. well it goes deep in very high to the top basically what people are really curious about is that we've seen austerity and cuts for the people but not for the politicians spain is one of the countries have the highest number of politicians per population ratio europe we have all of us as phillips between one hundred thousand two hundred thousand politicians actually drawing a salary from this eight so people furious that government families businesses

everyone has to cut back but the government has just raised taxes so i do believe he would have a chance to survive this if the economy was improving slowly it's not unemployment is not going down the latest numbers still see two thousand and thirteen growth in spain negative one point three to one point five. there's still putting off recovery till two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen so i don't think raju will survive this i think he will survive for now i don't see any movement before the general election months from now or loads of stories on the website for this hour including hackers to have smashed through the google glass ceiling. spectacular spectacles of the jurors online but cyber criminals have now given them the power to identify a person just by looking at those details at r.t. dot com to this hour. and a motor city store. it's bankruptcy for america's foremost symbol of manufacturing

might lead to. billion dollars right now. on the program making good on decades of rhetoric the e.u. is cutting off funding to firms funds on social projects and israeli settlements built illegally on palestinian land and the move certainly took israel by surprise officials describing the move as brutal and an earthquake that will have serious consequences on middle east correspondent paula reports from one of the affected areas. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is furious with this new european union directive and a number of leading israeli officials have called it an earthquake what it states is that in any future agreements between israel and the european union the needs to be an exclusion clause referring to settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem

now i'm standing in the israeli settlement of aureole behind me is the university that was founded thirty one years ago and which today has a student population of fourteen thousand degrees that awarded here are recognized by the israeli higher council for education but this latest move by the european union is bad news not only for settlements like this one but also for universities like the one you see behind me what it states is that they needs to be a pretty big on all grants scholarships prizes and money that is awarded and unless there is this exclusion cause now it is estimated that this will affect some forty percent of the israeli institutions including large corporations and banks that have in direct ties with the settlements palestinians and their allies have congratulated and welcomed this move saying that it is an important political and cultural boycott on the settlement movement but these raids are angry particularly the right wing elements in the town yahoos government who say that they're now

going to step up their cause to end any kind of gestures for resumption of peace talks with the palestinians placea r.t. in the ariel settlement west bank. now the e.u. and other international powers are pushing israel to accept a palestinian state within the one nine hundred sixty seven borders but over the decades more than a half a million israeli settlers have made their homes in occupied territories now many of these settlements on the lands their own and are claimed by israel as its own original xabi an award winning writer and journalist on the middle east she says that the real value of the e.u.'s move is that actually sets a precedent. it's unlikely that the actual financial cost to israel of this shifting guidelines will be that huge but was what it has done is that set a precedent whereby the european union has said it's ok to back our principles with law it's ok to say we oppose israel's occupation of the palestinian territories and

to inflict penalties and consequences if israel can continues to flout that international law but it is the result of a growing sense of frustration with israel constantly flouting international law as far as illegal settlements in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem that kind of frustration has been mounting over the past year and in particular. with the especially right wing government that israel has that is probably the most pro settler government that it's ever had. thank you for joining us here on r.t. today still to come in just a moment it's a good cop bad cop we hear about interrogation methods used by american police a lot from moscow it's on see.

if you want to hear something truly baffling the u.s. supreme court has ruled that generic drug makers cannot be sued for bad reactions to their products only the original branded creators of the drugs can the court's decision was five to four overturning a multimillion dollar award for a woman who was horribly wounded by taking a medication which gave her toxic epidermal necrosis which is basically the equivalent of getting third degree burns all over her body and of course after winning the case mutual pharmaceutical company is demanding their millions of dollars back from the woman who they naturally blame for having side effects from the medicine they made themselves remember this is not just a ruling about one drug but a ruling about all generic drugs which are eighty percent of the u.s. market all of them will not have any accountability i cannot wrap my head around the logic of only punishing the creator of

a product and granting immunity to anyone that later reproduces said product i mean would any sane person say that if you shoot a person with a colt forty five pistol that is a crime but if you use a copycat made in mexico to blow your neighbors off well that's ok because it's a generic copy no no sane person would allow generic drug producers to have no liability for their product but that's just my opinion. the crime is that of. a seventy four year old woman found. and dead on the twenty ninth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight along this dirt track. dozens of suspects will be questioned and all will be released including frank sterling seen in this photograph. two years later detectives trained by reed reopen the case and are convinced frank is guilty.